Speaking of Cheng Lin, many people may not know.
But as soon as everyone sees her photo, they will be reminded of a "non-mainstream" memory.
Cheng Lin, a beautiful woman who "lived" in the QQ avatar and QQ space, was the most popular Internet celebrity of that era.
No beauty, no filter, Cheng Lin's pure natural facial features and unique wear, provoked the whole network to imitate, a time exploded head, off-the-shoulder suits, small leather boots, and beep Biye's photo gestures are popular throughout the country, setting off a so-called "non-mainstream" and "kill Matt" popular trend.
Cheng Lin was born in 1987 in Huanggang, Hubei Province, and since she was a child, she has been the most beautiful boy in the local area.
She is very beautiful, with big eyes and melon face, clear eyes, fashionable dress, and beautiful from childhood.
At that time, many people were chasing the four kings, Cheng Lin was no exception, she liked Jacky Cheung's songs very much, once crazy to chase stars to buy posters and buy records, while humming songs while walking in school, wearing small leather boots against the explosive head, becoming the most fashionable student in the school.
Sometimes, Cheng Lin would desperately save money to watch Jacky Cheung's concert, which was something that could blow for a lifetime at the time.
Although Cheng Lin loves to dress up and chase stars, she is a popular figure in school, but her grades are not bad at all, on the contrary, she is very good, and Cheng Lin was admitted to Wuhan University in 2008.
After entering the university, the parents gave Cheng Lin more and more living expenses, Cheng Lin's fashion cells finally had more room to play, at that time the Network was just beginning to prevail, QQ became the basic tool for everyone to socialize, "add a QQ" became the most fashionable way to talk at that time.
How many post-80s and post-90s netizens have not stolen vegetables and grabbed parking spaces in the QQ space?
It was also at that time that Cheng Lin took some photos of herself dressed and posted them to the QQ space, and made cute expressions and gestures, most of which were pouting biye, very playful and cute.
QQ space is different from the current WeChat circle of friends, QQ space anti-access if set to public, then the whole network of people can enter the space to view the dynamics.
As soon as Cheng Lin's photo was posted on the Internet, it was liked and appreciated by many classmates, and over time, her reputation became bigger and bigger, and she once again became a prominent figure in school.
Whenever she walked on the road, her return rate was quite high, and the number of boys who pursued her was innumerable, and the girls began to imitate her outfit.
It is precisely because of this that Cheng Lin realized that she may be able to develop in the direction of models.
She began to work as an amateur model, hanging the clothes she wore on the Internet, her collocation was bold and fashionable, aesthetic novelty but not losing beauty, and her fame in the modeling circle was getting bigger and bigger.
At the same time, many netizens have begun to use Cheng Lin's photos as avatars, and even more use her photos to online dating, so that many "ignorant young boys" have been deceived.
There are also some people who take her photos to sell, and Cheng Lin's fame and value are getting higher and higher.
She became a goddess of the post-80s and post-90s generations, and became a symbol of the "non-mainstream" era.
Because of the increasing popularity, Cheng Lin opened her own clothing store, just like the current wear bloggers, posting selfies on the Internet, drying clothes, and the fashion career is doing well.
In the non-mainstream era, among the young people at that time, it lasted at least seven years or so, and Cheng Lin was on fire for nearly five years.
From 2008 to 2013, Cheng Lin has always had a lot of fans, although the Internet celebrities with similar styles as her have gradually appeared, but they are not as natural and pure as Cheng Lin, and there is no recognition of her, she seems to have been born for this era.
However, there are not many people, because Cheng Lin's fame is too big, the whole network is full of netizens with her photo avatar, and even some people have begun to use her identity to swindle.
At that time, network security maintenance was not as developed as it is now, people's vigilance and precautionary spirit were generally not high, many people really thought that they knew the real Cheng Lin, and frantically threw money and the "Cheng Lin" opposite the computer began to "fall in love".
Originally, Cheng Lin did not know it, but later she herself received a friend invitation pretending to be her own netizen, and Cheng Lin realized the seriousness of the matter, but the situation at that time was beyond her control.
She was at a loss and could not explain one by one, so Cheng Lin's parents advised her to simply fade out of the network and reduce her exposure, only in this way could she solve the problem.
Although there was some reluctance, Cheng Lin still did so, and has not appeared since.
It was not until Douyin began to be popular in the country, major Internet celebrities appeared one after another, and short videos became the most popular pastime, that Cheng Lin appeared again.
"Cough is the voice of a friend, knocking on the door is a friend on the line, Didi is the message coming, remember these sounds?"
Cheng Lin said this in her Douyin video, evoking many memories of the post-80s and post-90s.
At that time, people have not yet used smart phones, can use the mobile QQ of the dynamic zone is already "people on the people", everyone is basically using desktop computers to access the Internet, charging Q coins to use mobile phone bills or go to the Internet café to charge the era has long gone, and Cheng Lin a sentence to bring back to the past.
Then Cheng Lin began to dance, dress up, be a beauty blogger, and open a live broadcast to bring goods like other Internet celebrities on the Internet, but her fame was obviously much worse than before.
In order to increase her popularity and evoke people's memories of her, she wore the clothes of that year to take photos in the same place, and indeed attracted a lot of traffic, and the single video likes reached more than 1 million.
Many post-80s and post-90s netizens have married and had children, but they have been brought back to their youth by this video, and they all remember her, so everyone has ridiculed in the comment area.
"I was cheated out of 200Q coins by you."
"My brother went to Hubei by train alone in order to run with you."
"Oh my God, it's actually Cheng Lin, I also used her to make an avatar, she is really the originator of Internet celebrities!"
And Cheng Lin also enthusiastically replied to netizens, deliberately teasingly said: "Q coin I do not return, do not force me to withdraw the network Ha." ”
After that, Cheng Lin also posted a photo of her first love boyfriend.
In fact, in 2006, Cheng Lin talked about a boyfriend named Ye Jian.
When they were young, the two were indeed Lang Cai and female appearance, Cheng Lin was beautiful and beautiful, and Ye Jian was sunny and handsome, which could be described as a natural pair.
However, the two people are always unhappy because of various small things, and finally they can only break up and become friends again.
However, recently, Cheng Lin once again invited Ye Jian to take pictures together, and the Ye Jian in the photo had begun to be blessed in middle age.
Sure enough, the years are a pig-killing knife, which is this knife here in Cheng Lin, and it seems that it does not have much effect.
Cheng Lin is now 35 years old and has a child, but she is still very beautiful, and her appearance is not lost at all.
However, many netizens said that the current photo software beauty and filters are too heavy, and the photos and videos are not real enough.
People are still nostalgic for the pure and sweet Cheng Lin.
After returning to the Internet, although Cheng Lin still gained a large number of fans, compared with the current young Internet celebrities, she is indeed slightly inferior, but she still insists on live broadcasting, started the old business, began to sell clothes for clothing, and also did a good job.
But her personal life came to light.
Cheng Lin and her husband fell in love for five years before getting married, and after marriage, they also had a child, and their lives were very happy.
But suddenly, once, Cheng Lin announced in a short video that she was single again.
Many netizens wondered, isn't it married, you can see the sweet wedding photos of the two on the Internet.
However, Cheng Lin replied to netizens that she had divorced, although the reason was not revealed, but many netizens were still full of curiosity.
"Hey, I'm sorry for the non-mainstream originator."
Some netizens maliciously commented that Cheng Lin did not respond, but just continued her career, and encouraged girls to do their own business in the live broadcast room, and did not think about relying on others.
As the so-called "non-mainstream originator", in fact, Cheng Lin has always been controversial, and the non-mainstream boom that swept the country at that time has now become a negative symbol to some extent.
Many people feel that the "non-mainstream" style is contrived, and the pretentious sad text and pictures have caused many teenagers to be unsinawared, and some non-mainstream Internet singers are also this route, such as Shen Ke, who was very popular at that time, was exposed to suicide.
But Cheng Lin is different, she is very pure and kind, her emotional history is simple, people are also very sunny, to this day still live their own simple days, although divorced with a child, but she still loves life as much as the cute little girl.
The "non-mainstream" era has passed, it has become the memory of the times, but also carries the youth memory of the 8090s, Cheng Lin's return again, is also the proof of the youth of that year.
Nowadays, Cheng Lin in the short video still maintains a very good figure, and she holds the young child and smiles very brightly, which can also be regarded as harvesting her own beautiful life.
Although her time has passed, but the memories of many people's youth will not be erased in people's memories, I hope that Cheng Lin can continue to move forward, as she herself said, be an independent woman, continue to shine on the road of her life.